New AGS site release

Started by AGA, Sun 19/01/2025 00:03:56

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AGA

I am planning to put the long-awaited new AGS site live on the evening of Saturday, 25th January; this will likely take a few hours.  While the main site will completely change, the forums and wiki should continue to look and operate as they usually do.

This thread will be here for you to report any issues noticed after the site is up again!


Creamy

Congratulations and good luck for the final stretch!
 

heltenjon

When viewing recent posts, clicking on the thread name sometimes shows the post in its place in the thread (like earlier), but sometimes jumps to the first post in the thread (new, unexpected behaviour).

AGA

Could you give some definite examples, please?  "Sometimes" is unfortunately not very helpful...  I do notice that the links to individual posts aren't being rewritten the way they should; they appear as "https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?msg=636668906" instead of "https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/site-forum-reports/new-ags-site-release/msg636668906/#msg636668906".

eri0o

Great work with this new site! It's very impressive!!!

I noticed an issue in the forums, when I go to the Completed Games Announcement thread, if I click the three dots for showing more pages and then click the page 6, I get the following error, "The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you.".

Privateer Puddin'

Not sure to post here or the other topic where it was discussed previously. Do we have a list of remaining assets which are still using AI and need to be replaced? Is it just the main homepage banner?

heltenjon

Quote from: AGA on Sun 26/01/2025 00:58:04Could you give some definite examples, please?  "Sometimes" is unfortunately not very helpful... 

Examples that work like expected:
Spoiler
The latest posts in this thread.
The latest posts in AGS games in production
Engine Development
Competitions and Activities
Beginner's technical questions

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Examples that work in the unexpected way:
Spoiler
The latest posts in Completed games announcements (back until my comment on Teeth of Glass on Thursday, which works as expected. Earlier posts than this also seems to work on other boards.)
The latest posts in AGS engine and Editor releases
Modules, Plugins and Tools
Hidden forum for database maintenance
Adventure Related Talk and Chat
The Rumpus Room
Recruitment
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heltenjon

Trying to move to page 2 (or another number) while on a board (list of threads) gives an error message. Doing the same inside a thread works fine.

cat

The smiley bar in the reply window is broken, both quick reply and regular:



I'm using Firefox Desktop

Creamy

The "Play" page is showing the Pick of next month.

On a side note, my links for the Pick of the month don't work any more:
- add a new entry.
- edit an existing entry.
- list of existing entries.
 

RootBound

Just a small thing, but when you click on a "download" button from a game page, the text changes to "downloading" before sending you to the game's website. Given that no games are actually hosted on the AGS website, having the text say something like "connecting" or "redirecting" instead of "downloading" might eliminate that few seconds of misinformation where the button indicates that a download has started.
They/them. Here are some of my games:

glurex

I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work, but on the site (play section), when I try to view the games created by a specific user, it only shows the ones they uploaded, not the ones they collaborated on.

RootBound

Another thing--I'm almost certain that some of my games had gold-cup player ratings (Tunnel Vision did, I think--it has 5 comments), however this seems to have not carried over to the new site. Has the number of ratings to display a gold-cup rating increased? Curious if anyone else has noticed this with their own games.
They/them. Here are some of my games:

Laura Hunt

Another issue I've noticed: when I first registered on the website, my username was "notarobotyet", but I later changed it to the one I'm using now. The new site, however, is showing the old one both in the top right user menu and in the credits of my games (and games I've collaborated in). For example, here.

This also means I have two different profile URLs depending on where you are:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura%20Hunt/ or https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/Laura+Hunt/ on the forums.

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/profile/notarobotyet/ on the new site.

I changed my username because the first one was just meant to be a crappy placeholder, so I hope this can be fixed at some point.

Danvzare

I'm not sure if it's related to the new site, or if I just mis-clicked a bunch. But clicking the last post link on the forum, sometimes took me to the first post instead. It seemed to be completely random as well.

None the less, the new game site looks brilliant. Very fancy and modern looking.  (nod)
Thanks AGA and everyone else involved in the new site.  :-D

AGA

Quote from: cat on Sun 26/01/2025 09:31:42The smiley bar in the reply window is broken, both quick reply and regular:



I'm using Firefox Desktop

Fixed!

tampie85

Quote from: Privateer Puddin' on Sun 26/01/2025 03:58:56Not sure to post here or the other topic where it was discussed previously. Do we have a list of remaining assets which are still using AI and need to be replaced? Is it just the main homepage banner?

I think it's just these ones left:

1. Game Homepage Banner
Please be aware that the images you see on both the dark and the light mode are as is. A replacement should have a similar gradient, to allow the text/buttons to remain readable. Also, it needs to look good on different viewports.


2. Confirmation Page when a game creator has successfully added their game to the database.


3. 403 - Not authorised


4. 404 - Not Found


Also, the images of the engine in the carousel on this page https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/create/ are probably as old as the previous website, so if someone has more recent screenshots I'm more than happy to replace them.

pell

#18
I know I'm probably a user interface curmudgeon, but it's a little jarring as a viewer for the screenshots in the "Play Hundreds of Games" section to be covered by interface elements.

It's not that the wavy windows look bad. But the web design is partially hiding the very information the page is there to show. Maybe the waves could be moved down a bit, but then there's a lot of extra space taken up. Maybe a more subtle wave can be used that doesn't interfere with the screenshots, or rectangles with rounded corners if normal rectangles are too stiff for the design.

tampie85

#19
Quote from: Creamy on Sun 26/01/2025 14:31:36The "Play" page is showing the Pick of next month.

Fixed! And it's also fixed in the search filter.

Quote from: Creamy on Sun 26/01/2025 14:31:36On a side note, my links for the Pick of the month don't work any more:
- add a new entry.
- edit an existing entry.
- list of existing entries.

The list has been moved to the search page: Search Filter: Pick of The Month

The add/edit Pick of the Month doesn't have its own page anymore. If you navigate to the game page you want to add/edit the pick of the month for, you see an "Actions" button under the image carousel. This changes depending on your profile permissions. When you click it, you should see "Pick of the Month", which takes you to the correct section on the game edit page.

Please be aware that if you select an older game, you may need to complete missing mandatory fields.

I hope this helps!

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